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Network Management System (NMS)

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Be able to search a port number under Flow Configuration -> Protocols and Services -> "Service Mapping" tab or export to file for search.

In NMS tool, looking at flow data under Protocols and Services... how do I find TCP port 36450 and what it is linked to? Finding TCP under Protocols is easy but finding what 36450 is linked to under Service Mapping is hard * I haven't found a way ...
2 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NPM should support concurrent HSA adds

IBM SevOne NPM should support concurrent parallel HSA adds, if possible. For instance, one of our clients has 40 peers in their PAS/HSA pair environment and requires the ability to 'repave' by decommissioning and re-adding many peers at once as pa...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Is a defect

Add %ifInErrors, %ifOutErrors, %ifInDiscards, %ifOutDiscards as standard indicators for interfaces

These are industry standard metrics and should have been added years ago. All customers benefit since individual packet error/discard counts don't provide much context into the seriousness of the issue (e.g. 5 errors out of how many packets?) vs i...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Planned for future release

Requesting functionality to prevent the complete loss of data for IEN Calc object values in the event of data timeliness issues with member objects.

IEN CALC objects having frequent gaps in CDN calc objects 1. Alerting not reliable.2. the ability to "true up" the calc object values if member object data is delayed.3..the ability to see aggregate traffic values for remaining objects within the ...
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Needs more information

Objects are not discovering after onboarding device using API enpoint /api/v2/devices.

When onboard devices using the SevOne API, of the cases, randomly, onboarded devices have 0 objects discovered. The process is like this: the device is onboarded, metadata is applied to the device, and this metadata sets all the configuration need...
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Not under consideration

Add the logStatistics from SevOne-checkmate.log to SevOne self monitoring.

It would be useful to see how well the thresholds are being processed.
21 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

SevOne NPM should support netflow connection over TCP.

TCP is more secure and more reliable than UDP. As such, SevOne NPM should be able to support incoming netflow traffic over TCP in order to stay up to date with standards and customer expectations.
28 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Requirement is to merge Falcon/Top Talker report with Threshold breached notification into one email notification.

We have functionality for average threshold breaches for SDWAN devices to send a proactive alert/notification on email. But can there be any province to include Top talker data in the same email.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

In the NMS interface display tables consistently and make number of items on a page fit the page.

The system has many different ways to display tables on the screen. Ideally figure out how many rows fit on the current page and then page through them.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration